How to Use asylum in a Sentence

asylum

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  • She was granted asylum after it was made clear that she would be killed if she returned to her native country.
  • She asked for political asylum.
  • Ramirez also huddled the asylum seekers in the front of the church to pray.
    — The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2023
  • That would be a disaster, akin to putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Once that is done, then the feds can manage the asylum seekers, foot the bill and assist our cities.
    — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And from outside the walls of the asylum, a movement grows to free them from confinement.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
  • The arrivals first show that they are allowed to be in the US, while claims for asylum are processed, and then the help begins.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Ceja, at the time of her death, had formal asylum in the U.S. and was awaiting a hearing on the matter.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In the past week alone, more than 2,700 asylum seekers arrived in the city, officials said.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Her group works with refugees in the coastal town of Dover, the landing spot for many of the small boats that carry asylum seekers across the Channel to Britain.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The proposal would impact a small group of asylum seekers, the sources said.
    — Molly Nagle, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • Those made to leave the U.S. face gangs and a Mexican asylum system where cases linger for years.
    — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • New York will spend $25 million in state funds to rent homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • At the same time, the asylum seeker costs aren’t the only financial issues the city is facing.
    — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • Claim: The plan will ‘stop the boats’ by deterring asylum seekers from heading for Britain.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The windows were smashed and the asylum seekers were appearing at the windows.
    — Amanda Lewellyn, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Today a look at Venezuelan asylum seekers and their tough journey to the US.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The asylum system, by intent and design, does not gel with this approach at all.
    — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • How many asylum-seekers have been bused from the border to New York and Washington?
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The soldiers gripped their rifles in the face of men, women and children seeking asylum.
    — John C. Moritz, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The partial ban on asylum claims will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 4 June 2024
  • An Afghan man who recently crossed the border to request asylum now lives in one of the other bedrooms.
    — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • Refugee and asylum claims, both key targets during Trump’s first term, would once again be sharply curtailed.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • House Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would destroy the process to gain asylum in the United States.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • As an asylum-seeker, Rodríguez did not have a work permit.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2023
  • People granted asylum in Rwanda would not be able to return to Britain.
    — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • The United States should also uphold the rights of migrants and asylum seekers fleeing the crisis in Venezuela.
    — Tirana Hassan, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • One core part of reforms would be revamping the process for migrants seeking asylum in the country.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Riots soon spread to other towns as the mobs broke windows and tried to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier this year, several of the peers objected on human rights grounds to a plan by the previous Conservative government to put asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda (the law passed anyway but was scrapped by the Labour government).
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024

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